If the blue-headed rooster can’t learn to make some noise he’ll wind up as “quiet rooster stew,” in this down-home Cajun tale for readers 4 to 8 by the author of The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig. Luckily the rooster’s friend the Brown Hen goes looking for Joe Beebee, a fiddler so talented that his music can make anyone forget his or her worries. If anyone can help the rooster get his voice back, it’s Joe—assuming he’ll play for a bunch of chickens. Illustrator Melissa Sweet contributes appropriately folksy collages of apprehensive hens and happy musicians.